Usage:
Beshoar Alluvium (CO*,NM*)
Geologic age:
Quaternary*
Pleistocene, middle middle*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: in sec. 35, T. 32 S., R. 63 W., Las Animas Co., CO. Named from Beshoar, an abandoned railway station on the Colorado and Southern RR, Las Animas Co., CO (Scott, 1985).
AAPG geologic province:
Las Vegas-Raton basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).